melancholy - Story 88997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, look!" Maya's sister pointed to the university's online brochure. There it was, Maya’s essay. The image, a snapshot of her on a mountain hike, seemed to shout from the screen. A tremor ran through Maya, and she could taste bile in her throat.

She remembered the feeling of writing the essay, the hope, the fear, the exhaustion. Now, seeing it again, felt like revisiting a place she didn't wish to go. She closed her eyes, the screen's light casting an unwelcome glow upon her face. She was trapped in it.

Emotion: melancholy

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.78 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion melancholy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 melancholy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the melancholy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the melancholy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.445
`😞`	0.376
`😔`	0.337
`いつも`	0.327
`sadness`	0.312

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.739
`la`	-0.548
`l`	-0.497
`/`	-0.314
`!`	-0.290